Although the government is pushing for earlier English education in schools, the educational system is struggling to keep up and prepare for the demands of the new curriculum. The Central Council for ...

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...

Starting next fiscal year, all elementary schools will be required to introduce compulsory English lessons for fifth- and sixth-graders. The scores of Japanese who take the Test of English as a ...